Grocery Shopping 101

Ideally, all processed foods should be thrown out. You should be eating things that were alive not too long ago, thus you should be grocery shopping a couple of times a week- or at least buying in bulk and freezing as needed. My fridge looks like this so I can see clearly what  I have and what I need:

Meat/Poultry:
Grass fed bison/cow/poultry or pork
Organic grass fed eggs
Dried/cured meats
Grass fed Jerky
Wild Caught Fish


Fats:
Nuts, but butters
Olive Oil
Coconut oil


Vegetables:
Kale
Spinach
Cucumber
Carrots
Peppers
Fennel
Avocado

Fruit:
Grapefruit
Organic berries
Sometimes a green apple

Dairy:
Hormone-free (ideally grass fed) Heavy Cream
Greek Yogurt (any fat content- I like Fage or Skyrr)
Hormone free (ideally grass fed) Butter
Jay Robb's vanilla Whey Protein mixes
Goat cheeses
Halloumi- it's a grillable cheese. Great for making faux paninis and pizzas

Other:
Organic Coffee
Green Tea
Ginger Tea
Chia seeds
Flax seeda
Supplements (Fish oil, magnesium, Vit C, Vit D3, B vitamins)

Treats:
Organic popcorn
Dark Chocolate (70% or more) and unsweetened baking chocolate
Stevia (liquid; toffee flavored)
Coconut Flour
Arctic Zero Vanilla Maple Ice cream
PB2 peanut butter

Try to keep only one serving of treat foods in the house. That way if you want it, it's there but you can't go overboard. Also try to spend a night prepping foods for the week. I try to put my work lunches and snacks together so that they're easy to mix and match, grab and go.


Here's a quick dinner I "made" a few nights ago with what I had in the fridge:
We were supposed to have a snow storm so I used things that didn't need to be cooked in case we lost power:
Sliced cucumber, Goat brie, petit basque, cured chorizo and fennel salumi (all nitrate free and grass fed), stone ground mustard, hazelnuts tossed in truffle oil with rosemary
Organic Blueberries and stevia sweetened whipped cream, couple pieces 70% dark chocolate (Lindt)

For chef I added some extras that, sadly, he likes:
sliced American cheese (don't ask), a baguette, and a muffin
I'm working on his eating habits little by little. sigh.